Best of Boston

BEST Production

A tie. Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play (Stage Company). Jittery showfolk trading barbs and bicarbs at an off-Broadway bowmb. And Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw (Lyric Stage). High jinks in a psychiatric clinic. Orton 1. Shrinks 0. read more »

The deliciously tart Importance of Being Earnest at Lowell’s Merrimack Repertory Theatre; and the epic staging of Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men at the Trinity Repertory Company, in Providence. read more »